Critical minerals have become essential not only for the global energy transition but also for national security and defence. As countries work […]
Aramine continues to advance underground mining equipment designed for narrow-vein operations, with a growing focus on battery electric machinery and automation. The […]
Two provinces--Manitoba with its producing mines in the Thompson Nickel Belt and Quebec with one nickel/copper mine on the Ungava Peninsula--are under investigation by would-be and existing nickel min...
Diamond drilling began in late January from the first portion of a new underground decline being developed by Vancouver-based DRC Resources Corp. at the Afton copper-gold project near...
Tucked away in the eastern rim of the Sudbury Basin, the Nickel Rim South deposit has hidden its potential for decades. A recent change in its exploration strategy has allowed Falconbridge Ltd...
Northern Ontario-based mining supplier, Wabi Iron & Steel Corp., has recently designed and manufactured a unique mine shaft conveyance for an underground facility in the United States. Of major si...
Moly extraction from copper concentrate...
It's early February as I write, and the Mining Indaba is taking place in Cape Town. Miners and explorers from around the world are drawn to the mineral wealth of southern Africa....
Diavik Diamond Mines Inc.' of Yellowknife, N.W.T., has a new automated robotic work-cell system at its Product Splitting Facility to handle the initial cleaning of diamonds from its mine, located 300...
The twin gold mines Red Lake and Campbell in Balmertown, Ontario share a deep, high-grade orebody. The former poor sister of the two--the Red Lake (a.k.a. Arthur White/Dickenson) mine--has come...
BPR-Bechtel has acquired the Timmins, Ont., assets of AMEC. The transaction follows on the heels of mining giant Noranda-Falconbridge transferring it...
Dressta North America of Buffalo Grove, Ill., has rolled out the TD-40C tier II crawler dozer, a heavy-duty machine that builds on the legacy of the TD-40C while meeting new, lower U....
"A Practical Guide to Rock Microstructure" is a recent release from Cambridge University Press. The author Ron H. Vernon is an emeritus professor of Geology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australi...
Driving east from downtown Timmins through Schumacher and South Porcupine, one can't help but notice the tailings mounds that have accumulated over the years from gold mining. There is a lot of mining...
